Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [not/n't] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Believe me , to conclude , tho' I have no business head , for large & lengthy affairs , I am keen enough in figures & small matters , & always was ; so that I can not be disputed . |
2 | I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content . |
3 | Similarly , I can not be refuted if I claim to experience a religious emotion . |
4 | The topmost foliage is taller than me and the growth is so dense I can not be seen from the lawn as I dig into the muddy trench which forms an oasis round the stem . |
5 | I have discharged my duty , she thought , I can not be troubled by my conscience in that respect . |
6 | I can not be mistaken about perceiving something as , say , a cigarette case , because in saying , ‘ It looks like a cigarette case ’ I am not saying that there is an appearance which is a cigarette case . |
7 | ‘ I 'd go back , to Europe , because I know that I can not be traced . ’ |
8 | I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls . |
9 | And , if she has a sister who is going out of her mind , I have had a mother eighty-nine years old and senile , I can not be said to deserve any further burdens nor to have failed in carrying out my duty . |
10 | ‘ I can not be suspected by anyone of seeking prestige , ’ he said . |
11 | My favourite statistic of the match , however , is that six of the England team have the middle initial A. I can not be bothered to check whether this has ever happened before , but I doubt it . |
12 | I get to the stage when I can not be bothered . |
13 | Furthermore , complexes formed by oligonucleotide I can not be competed with oligonucleotide III and vice versa oligonucleotide III complexes can not be competed with oligonucleotide I ( Fig. 3 , lanes 1–4 ) . |
14 | He is trapped as I can not be trapped . |
15 | If my servant , acting bona fide within the scope of his authority , procures or causes me to break a contract which I have made with you , you can not sue the servant for interference with the contract ; for he is my alter ego here , and I can not be sued for inducing myself to break a contract , although I may be liable for breaking the contract . |
16 | I can not be expected to monitor these statements . |
17 | Meanwhile she can not be moved . |
18 | If your child is over 16 , he or she can not be tested for HIV without his or her permission . |
19 | She can not be touched by any more strangers . |
20 | Her mother has been told that she can not be cured in this country , so with family and friends she 's launched an appeal to try to raise thousands of pounds to take Natalie to the Hoxey Clinic in Mexico City for specialist herbal treatment . |
21 | The giant who knows she can not be helped in any way . |
22 | But she can not be accused of lack of emotional intensity in the 15 songs of The Book of the Hanging Gardens . |
23 | As I write , I make assumptions about what my reader already knows about language and language learning , about the common ground of knowledge , and what he or she can not be expected to know since it concerns the idiosyncrasies of my own view of these matters . |
24 | It seems impossible to me that she can not be brought back to life , that such a person can not be brought back to normal life . |
25 | There was , too , the how-dun-it , the book in which it soon becomes evident who the murderer is but in which he or she can not be brought to satisfying justice unless some ingenious , proof-defying method used is brought to light . |
26 | I have been there three times , but each time they say I must go back to the Home Office and try to get my daughter a visa for longer than a six months ' stay in Britain ; otherwise she can not be admitted to school . |
27 | Having spent many years arguing for government support for the British fashion industry — and getting nowhere — she can not be blamed for opting to manufacture and show abroad . |
28 | If you can not be contacted or do not make acceptable repayment proposals within a reasonable time , we may commence or continue procedures to enforce repayment . |
29 | establish the principle that when your office door is open you are willing to accept ‘ drop in callers ’ but when it is shut you can not be disturbed except for a real emergency |
30 | So if your relationship breaks down you can not be charged each other 's Poll Tax bills , even if you are still living in the same house . |